Titus 2:3
1 But as for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine.
2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.
Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
4 In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
- KJV
- The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
- WEB
- and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
- ASV
- that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
- DARBY
- that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;
- BLB
- older [women] likewise reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not being enslaved to much wine, teachers of good,
- ÅB
- likeså at gamle kvinner i sin ferd skal te seg som det sømmer seg for hellige, ikke fare med baktalelse, ikke være slaver av drikk, men veiledere i det gode,
- OTB
- Likeså skal eldre kvinner føre seg slik som det sømmer seg for hellige, ikke baktalende, ikke avhengige av mye vin, men være lærere i det gode,
- B1930
- likeså at gamle kvinner i sin ferd skal te sig som det sømmer sig for hellige, ikke fare med baktalelse, ikke være træler av drikk, men veiledere i det gode,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Titus 2:4
In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
Read in context1 Timothy 3:11
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
Read in context1 Peter 3:3–5
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
Read in context1 Timothy 2:9–10
Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
Read in contextTitus 1:7
As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.
Read in context1 Timothy 5:5–10
The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
Read in contextRomans 16:2
Welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her with anything she may need from you. For she has been a great help to many people, including me.
Read in context1 Timothy 3:8
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.
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